Disc 1: White Peristaltic Interrogations [sic]
Disc 2: Devocalised Fluchtverdächtiger / Blocksperre Refluxur [sic]
" " [sic] Tim Goldie: drums (disc 1), voice (disc 1, 2), credit card (disc 1, 2), bird whistle (disc 1), snare drums (disc 2), guitar amplifiers/leads (disc 2)
Recorded by " " [sic] Tim Goldie with two AKG 414 BULS direct to
Tascam DAP1 DAT
No overdubs or effects
Mastered by Taku Unami
Released in October 2007
Reviews:
Tochnit Aleph (Berlin)
Recommended first
solo-release by the great 'percussionist',
trouble-maker, Deflag Haemorrhage / Haien Kontra member from London.
Double CD of live & direct miniatures for Drums, Voice, Credit
Card, Bird Whistle, and Guitar Amplifier/Leads. WHAT A LUXURY!
Netmage Festival (Italy 2009)
" "[sic] Goldie is one of the most original noise musician/performers on the European scene. His double album "ABJECTOR"[sic] is a violent and considered examination of the fragmentation of language, the de-composition of instrumental research and the painful suffering that accompanies it. Far from any current or cultural influence, Goldie's work places itself in a unique conceptual universe, and its cruel voice warbles a mix of agony and ecstasy.
Metamkine
(France)
Voix, batterie, ampli guitare, câbles. Enregistré avec
le volume au
maximum de l'entrée du DAT, saturations continues, le cri excite
la
batterie, la voix joue de la caisse claire et le feedback fait des
siennes Une véritable déflagration, comme une version
ultra-punk de
'Music for solo performer' d'Alvin Lucier. Coproduction w.m.o/r et
Hibari music.
ADAM SHERRY JANUARY 2008
""ABJECTOR"[sic]....... The skeleton and centre of this record for
me is Tim Goldie's virtuoso percussion. Different angles sharpened and
cut into with rhythm and swarms of sound, beat down through his drums,
a constant pressure or
tension maintained in the lengthy build up of songs, an expectation and
wait for a sudden fall or explosion, as primal or as physical as i've
heard any drummer play. Over two discs Tim creates an atmosphere of his
own, forms the
basis of his own language, sucks you wholly into his world. The small
echoes or sparks of dark sound coming off cymbals, distorted screams, a
peel of words through a snare drum, and silence. "
NoiseBlog (USA)
Mattin [website] sent me a couple of his most recent
releases, including “Abjector“, a double release by [sic]
Tim Goldie [mySpace without music, mySpace with
music].
Both discs contain some 70 minutes of material, cut up in chunks of 2
minutes, so you get 30+ tracks on both discs, though in both cases it’s
actually just one long track. Feel free to play this disc in random
mode.
On Disc 1 you’ll find a track called “White Peristaltic
Interrogations”
recorded using “drums, voice, credit card and bird whistle” - It’s
quite varied, starting of calmly with an etheric cymbal-piece, and then
spanning the whole spectrum between “drums falling down the stairs in a
controlled manner” over “duct tape on skin harshnoise” to “abstract
hardcore jazz with heavy screams on uppers (*)” - the latter are a bit
hard to digest, but the avantgard-minded among us will certainly dig it
- I’m more for the harshnoise parts and tumbling drums (that by moments
come pretty close to abstract percussion à la old school Z’ev),
just to
say that probably everyone will find something in the record that he or
she will like (unless you’ve never ventured past the pop-department of
your local record-shop, but in that case you wouldn’t be reading these
pages anyhow - a fucked-up taste is a prequisite). Disc 2, “Devocalised
Fluchtverdächtiger/Blocksperre Refluxur”
is a bit of a surprise after Disc 1 (or not) - On this one Tim Goldie
drops the bird whistle (bird died while recording Disc 1, or whistle
got lost or swallowed), uses only snare drums (rest of the drum is in
debris after the recording of Disc 1) and as an additional instrument
uses a guitar amplifier and leads. The credit card is still mentioned
in the listing, and probably playing an even bigger role in the whole
track, as “Devocalised Fluchtverdächtiger/Blocksperre Refluxur” is
pretty raw and fucked-up (and therefore totally “up my alley“)
- I don’t really hear snare drums in the track, but there’s a lot of
cable- and amp-noise on this one and [sic] Tim Goldie screaming the
guts out of his body, reminding me of that classic 7″ of a certain
japanese act starting with a “G” and ending on “e” - other parts,
especially the “fuck”-ones, remind me more of a power-electronics act
with failing electronica. Lots of silences in this track, sometimes
lasting several minutes - The liner-notes (in mirrored writing) mention
that the material is recorded directly to DAT using two mikes (without
overdubs, nor effects) so I guess this means [sic] Tom Goldie put the
integral recording on disc, straight from DAT as it was recorded that
day including the parts that he was doing creditcard or just trying to
get his stuff together cause this was clearly a heavy
studio-experience. Putting the integral recording on disc makes this
record a truely straight-forward, no-nonsense release. Recommended! You
can order
this release at Hibarimusic [website] in Japan
(for 2000 yen it’s yours). Here’s what another reviewer (Bagatellen) says
about the record (in case you need a second opinion before deciding).
(*) that would explain the occurence of a credit card in the list with used instruments
Bad Alchemy # 57 Feb. 2008 (Deutschland)
Bagatellen (USA)
Abjector [sic] ([sic] Tim Goldie)
[sic]
w.m.o/r – hibari
h.mo/r 02
A lot of brackets and “sics” here, but essentially this is two
lengthy discs of solo percussion and noise by Goldie. The first, “White
Peristaltic Interrogations”, is largely percussive and the more
successful of the two. The general tone is dark, groaning and chaotic
and one has the impression of a musician throwing himself in among his
tools. In fact, I was reminded of Z’ev more than once. The second disc
is in more of a screaming noise mode and less interesting to me because
of that. Both clock in at over 70 minutes and are arbitrarily divided
in dozens of two minute tracks. While the first disc varies attacks
pretty well, they both linger too long to hold my attention (! Did I
say, “Attention?”). It’s a good effort though and Disc 2 (bearing a
title that trips off of one’s tongue: “Devocalised
Fluchverdächtiger/Blocksperre Refluxur [sic]”) will doubtless
provide a
goodly amount of enjoyment for the more No Fun oriented listener.
Posted by Brian Olewnick on November 14, 2007
5:57 PM
Monochrome Vision (Russia)